Corporate whores and their corporate wars.

[ancianita]

IF there will be a "war of choice" made by this impeached prez, it will NOT be a war of choice made by Americans.

All wars are wars of pretext.

This time, it's Iraq.

Like Mikel Jollet tweets, and CousinIT reposts, if you were too young to understand the last Iraq war, just remember that it was pretextual -- declared on a pretext, not because of any act of war on its target's part.

Our leaders' pretext was that Saddam Hussein had WMD's when there were none. And our warmongers knew it. (Since then, some with intel access say that he transferred them to his brothers in Iran -- a likely thing, since Iran has since turned up with nuclear capability).

Many other countries hostile to the US have WMD's too, including the Saudis, whose own 19 fundamentalists killed 3,000 Americans, flying planes into US buildings.

Young or old, you need to accept that American wars are now corporate wars. We knew back in the 70's that they always were, but in "world" wars, we helped allies fight off land invasions.

Not now. Now US elites help the few who plan their pretexts, then produce these violent events they see as "dramas."

These military-industrial elites send help to no Kurds, no Ukrainians, no Iraqi civilians, no veterans, no natural disaster victims, no average Americans. This latest war of pretext is intended to keep profits up, Russians up, Saudis up, Israelis up, Republicans up, holy books' warriors up, and a con man US president IN.

Corporations intend to distract from their planned takeover of THIS country's govt in the 2020 "election year," every bit as much as they have taken over any country we pretextually warred on to "preserve our freedoms."

In elites' wars of pretext,
freedoms at home are always curtailed,
dissenters censored,
stigmatized,
detained,
arrested,
jailed.

War campaigns are staged on several stages, in stages, and are never meant to be understood, only felt. Like Trump campaign rallies.

We must learn not to misplace our trust in those who benefit most from wars of pretext. We must do what we can to stop them. We must fight warmongers' misuse of our taxes, thus learn how to control our tax money in peacetime.

Memes, cuz I'm feelin' WTFAF

[Sherman A1]

1. Smedley Butler

A guy who won 2 Medals of Honor deserve both respect and folks should listen to him.

[ancianita]

2. Since 1935 we haven't listened! 85 freakin' years!

[alwaysinasnit]

3. Big K&R. Thanks for posting.

[ancianita]

4. Thank YOU, alwaysinasnit!

[alwaysinasnit]

5. Your post reminded me of Cindy Sheehan and her questioning of Bush as to the reason for her

son's death. There are no righteous wars, only excuses to steal/control another country's resources.

[ancianita]

6. She was a fighter, wasn't she. We need millions more like her. Warmongers are death dealers.

[alwaysinasnit]

7. Thank you ancianita. I take comfort from the wisdom I see shared from posts like yours and others'

here on DU.

[malaise]

8. After his last tweet he needs to be escorted out of the WH in a strait

jacket. He is fucking mad. His latest edict is that his tweets serve as notice to Congress.

[ancianita]

9. Twitter should sue him for platform abuse. Twitter has Melania Syndrome.

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[flotsam]

10. Imma gonna post this to FB-I love it and hope you won't mind.

So I ask for forgiveness rather than permission.

[ancianita]

11. Of course I don't mind. This isn't copyrighted and I'm flattered, actually.